Interviews & Essays
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Radio Interviews
KBOO Radio (Portland, OR)
Interview with author Chris Delyani on You Are Here
Print & Web Interviews
Elin Gregory’s Comfy Chair
“My guest today is Chris Delyani, whose contemporary novels set in San Franciso have achieved critical acclaim and who also writes articles for the Huffington Post in addition to holding down a full time day job.
Thank you, Chris, for taking time out of what be an incredibly busy schedule to answer my questions…”
Boston University’s The Daily Free Press
BU Graduate Publishes Novel Fighting Proposition 8
Boston University alumnus Chris Delyani said he hopes his new novel exploring relationships, marriage and society in San Francisco’s gay community will help normalize gay marriage and work against Proposition 8.
Delyani, a 1990 College of Communication graduate, said his experiences in San Francisco as a gay man shaped his novel, titled You Are Here, and its message.
HUFFINGTON POST BLOGS
Where Will Your Yellow Brick Road Take You?
“I remember this guy who snapped at me in a crowded Castro bar. I felt sad for him — sad for all of us. We were a community, weren’t we? If we couldn’t get along in a gay bar in the gayest neighborhood in the gayest city in North America, I thought, then where could we get along?“
A Silver Coming-Out Story
Then a slip of paper, not much larger than a sheet of paper you’d write a shopping list on, fell out of the book’s pages. On it was typewritten a simple, unsigned message from the Boston Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth.
A Portrait of The Artist at 83
“Getting old is wonderful,” my neighbor Robert Akeley told me with a smile, his blue eyes lighting up, when I asked him for the single most important message he’d like to pass on to Huffington Post readers.
Amazing Grace
I should’ve known she’d find me. Within minutes of my March blog posting of my first visit to the Boston Alliance of Gay and Lesbian Youth, Grace Sterling Stowell, BAGLY’s executive director, sent me a Facebook message, thanking me for sharing my story and sounding very happy to be in touch with me again. I was flattered, but not altogether surprised that she remembered me. She probably remembers all the kids who pass through BAGLY.